Plymouth City Council is launching an awareness campaign to remind people to inform them of any changes in circumstances for housing benefits.
The ‘It’s great to be up to date’ campaign - which has been grant funded by the Department of Work and Pensions - aims to encourage more people to come forward and tell the Council about important life changes.
Secrets of the seabed are being revealed as divers undertake exploratory scientific surveys in a bid to better understand the UK’s marine environment and help protect it for the future.
Five professional divers and marine ecologists, commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts, are gathering evidence and data from areas where existing knowledge about marine habitats is limited.
Police are appealing to the public after a snooker cue signed by legends of the game including five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan was stolen in Plymouth.
The unique snooker cue and case is owned by Stuart Craig (pictured) who won the cue in raffle run by Snooker Legends and was signed by Ray Reardon, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Jimmy White, John Virgo and Michaela Tabb.
PLYMOUTH will be looking to continue their successful home form when they meet Newcastle in the Premier League at the St Boniface Arena on Friday evening (7.15pm).
The Skills Group Devils have won their last five home league matches and will be aiming to take three points from Newcastle to keep alive their bid for a top six finish to reach the end of season play-offs.
An inventor who began developing prosthetic hands while studying at Plymouth University has been named the 2015 winner of the National UK James Dyson Award.
Joel Gibbard graduated in 2011 with a First-Class degree in BEng (Hons) Robotics, and has since developed an advanced robotic hand through his company Open Bionics.
At a fraction of the cost of conventional prosthetics, the...
Passengers are being offered an opportunity to find out about a new bus network for Plymouth at a special event.
Stagecoach South West has previously announced it is taking over the Plymouth and South Devon bus operations from First Devon and Cornwall from 6th September 2015.
The information day, to be held at Place de Brest on Saturday 29th August, will give people a chance to...
Work to install a new bridge over The Ride will get under way this week.
The bridge, which is the second phase of the Laira Rail Bridge scheme, will extend the popular new pedestrian and cycle link even further towards Saltram Meadow and Plymstock.
Laira Rail Bridge will be closed from Wednesday 26 August while work to dismantle the temporary scaffolding ramp, install the new...
Plymouth City Council's Leader is urging the Government to make sure the city is not further disadvantaged by proposed cuts to Public Health funding.
Councillor Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, has written to both Chancellor George Osborne and Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, to ask them to rethink plans to cut £200m from public health budgets nationally across...
Women managers in the South West are effectively working for free an hour and a half every day, new gender pay gap data reveals.
The findings of an annual survey of 72,000 UK managers, published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and salary specialist XpertHR, reveal that women working in equivalent full-time roles in the region earn 20% less than men, meaning that they are...
